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- UNrTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK M. MUNROE, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OFTWO-THIRDS TO CHARLES M. SHEDD AND FRED A. NICKERSON, BOTH OF SAMEPLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,569, dated November25, 1884.

Application filed March .29, 1884.

To a, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK M. MUNRoE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvementsjn LacingFastening Dcvices for Tearing-Apparel, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for easily and quicklysecuring the ends of lacing-strings to shoes and other articles ofwearing-apparel to hold the lacings in place after they have been wovenacross each other, in the usual manner, the object being to provide animproved device for the above.

named purpose which will hold securely the end of the lacing without anyknotting or tying whatever.

' In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1illustrates a shoe having applied thereto a lacing fastener constructedaccording to my invention. Fig. 2 is a View of the fastener and ofan'cyelet employed therewith. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on a lineor m, Fig. 2.

In the drawings, a is the fastener, which is constructed from suitablemetal of a springy nature, and consists of a head, a, preferably ofcircular form, extending from which is a fiat arm, 2', which is slightlytapering in thicle ness from said head to the end thereof. The end ofarm 7; is bent over upon itself, as shown in Fig. 2, and near where thebend is madeis formed, branching from the arm 7;, apost, 0, between theinner face of which and the adjoining edge of the arm 2 is sufficientspace to draw the end of the lacing D, as shown in Fig. 1. The end 6 ofthe arm t, which is bent over upon itself, as shown in Fig. 2, is bentquite near to that portion of said arm under it, leaving. a spacetherebetween at the edge adj oining post 0 much narrower than thethickness of the lacing which is to be drawn into the aperture soformed. The lip e is bent to an (N0 model.)

incline transversely to that portion of arm z thereunder, as shown inFig. 3, so that the edge of lip e which adjoins post cis much nearer tothe surface of arm 2' than is the opposite edge, whereby theedge of lip6 next to post 0 is made to bite firmly upon the lacing drawn thereunderand prevent it from slipping.

The fastener a is secured to a shoe by perforating the latter, puttingthe rivet b through said perforation, placing head 11. 'over the rivet,and heading down the latter,in the usual way.

The fastener is secured to gloves, corsets, and other articles ofwearing-apparel in sub stantially the same manner.

The manner of fastening the end of the lacing by means of my improvedfastener is illustrated in Fig. 1-that is to say, the end of the lacingis drawn between the lip eand the arm 13 thereunder, and drawn betweenthe postz' and the edge of the lip, leaving it in the position shown insaid last-named figure. The slight turn of the lacing given to it, asshown, by being drawn around the corner of post 0, together with theaforesaid bite of the lip 6, thereby secures the end of the lacing Dagainst any possibility of slipping.

What I claim as my invention is The within-described improvedlacing-fastener,consisting of a perforated head, substantially asdescribed, having an arm extending therefrom, the end of which is bentover upon itself to form a spring-clip, one edge of said clip beingnearer to the arm under it than the other, and having a post standingnear the edge of said clip formed on the end of a branch from said arm,and extending in a direction across the opening between said clip andthe arm thereunder, substantially as set forth.

FREDERICK M. MUN ROE.

WVitnesses:

H. A. CHAPIN, J. D. GARFIELD.

